<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Call for Papers / 2014 MLA Convention in Chicago</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Division: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white">East Asian
Languages and Literatures after 1900</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Members of Executive Committee of the Division of East Asian
Languages and Literatures after 1900, of the Modern Language Association (MLA),
make this Call for Papers and invite proposals in the form of a 250-word
abstract, to be sent directly to the Organizer of the respective sessions.
Inquiries should also be directed to the session organizer. The deadline for
submission is March 10, 2013. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white">Session: Representations of Disaster in Contemporary Asia</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Papers that
consider issues of representation of recent disasters throughout Asia, such as
earthquakes, famine, tsunami, or nuclear meltdown, in a variety of media.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white">Organizer: doug slaymaker</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white"> <<a href="mailto:dslaym@uky.edu">dslaym@uky.edu</a>></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">250-word
abstract</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">by
March 10, 2013</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white">Session: Asia and the Nobel Prize in Literature</span></b></p>
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<span style="background:white">Papers exploring the cultural, linguistic,
literary, and political meanings of this prize and the works of the
surprisingly few Asian laureates and nominees.</span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white">Organizer: Melek Ortabasi <<a href="mailto:mso1@sfu.ca">mso1@sfu.ca</a>></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<span style="background:white">250-word abstracts</span><br>
<span style="background:white">by March 10, 2013.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">(joint panel
with the </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white">Translation Discussion Group)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white">Session: Thinking Fanlation</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Papers
that explore the theoretical or political ramifications of fanlation,
scanlation, fansubbing, or other forms of unauthorized and/or crowdsourced
translation in a global media context.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white">Organizer: Michael Emmerich</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white"> <<a href="mailto:maikerue@gmail.com">maikerue@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">250-word
abstract</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">by
March 10, 2013</span></p>
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<div><br></div>-- <br>Henry Em<br>Associate Professor <br>East Asian Studies, NYU <br>41 East 11th Street, 7th Floor <br>New York, NY. 10003-4602 <br><br>Cell: 734-846-2500<br>Office: 212-998-3826